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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Rongotea

Rongotea, formerly Campbelltown, is a lovely farming centre, some eighteen miles north-east of Foxton, and about six miles from Carnarvon on the Foxton Tramway, and a similar distance west of Palmerston North. It is on the Oroua River, and is a portion of the Oroua Downs Estate. The town itself, with a population of 153 inhabitants, is prettily laid out and well situated, and the roads are capital, the land being chiefly occupied by dairy farmers, who are fairly prosperous. The creamery and butter factory of the town is jointly owned by the suppliers, who manage the concern so well that they are enabled to get three pence per gallon for all the milk they can supply. Rongotea has a post and telephone office, with moneyorder, postal-note, and post-office savings bank, and daily mails, a public State school, and four churches—the English, Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Roman Catholic. The communication from Foxton, Palmerston North, Greatford, Sanson, and Longburn, is by mail coach. There is a fairly good boardinghouse, but no hotel. The products of the district are wool, grain, butter, and cheese. Rongotea is in the County and Electorate of Manawatu.